BookFab Debuts AudiobookJP Converter, Bringing Offline Listening Freedom to audiobook.jp Users

BookFab has released BookFab AudiobookJP Converter, enabling users to convert audiobook.jp books and podcasts to MP3, ...

Forget Spotify—use this free app to build a permanent music library

To my surprise, no, it's actual licensed music from big name record labels, including Sony. There's both a Freegal website ...

'Pipit' Is a Great Voice-to-Text App for Mac, and It's Free

Pipit is a free Mac dictation app that works offline. It can be used to do more than just transcribe speech—it can launch ...
eWeek

Meet Pocket TTS: Real-Time Voice AI That Runs on a Laptop

Pocket TTS is an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs, clones voices from 5 seconds of audio, and keeps voice ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I learn better by listening, and NotebookLM's audio summaries changed how I study

Alongside writing, I'm a full-time student, and I'm always looking for ways to study smarter. Nowadays, that obviously ...
The Outerhaven on MSN

Yen Audio Announces the Audiobook Adaptation of The Summer Hikaru Died

Yen Audio will be debuting the audiobook in July 2026 with the voice cast to be announced at a later date. The bond between ...
Music Connection

Sound Particles releases a new free eBook — How to Program a Synth

News broke this week that audio technology company Sound Particles has released a free eBook called How to Program a Synth, "for musicians who want to deepen their understanding of synthesizers.
NPR

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How 'The Joy Luck Club' highlighted the complicated dynamics of immigrant families January 7, 2026 • Connecting across generations can be tough, even in the same family. This is at the heart of Amy ...